September 18, 2007

I've been thinking for weeks about what kind of special post to make on this day. My husband said, "It should be a gift to Shabana, not to your readers."

We talked about it for a while, and one of us had the idea that I should write her a couplet.

And so I most humbly offer my gift to Shabana ji, in hopes that she can forgive me for mangling her lovely language. I'm not aiming for greatness; I'm merely hoping it makes sense. Also I still can't write in Urdu script so Devanagari will have to do. Anyhow here it is:

अन्दाज़, जाज़िबत, हुसन, ज़हन, जानइन चीज़ों से बनता है एक बड़ा इनसान

Style, grace, beauty, intelligence, soulOf these things one great person is made

Ahem. Having got that out of the way, here's something considerably prettier for all of us to enjoy: a birthday slide show retrospective-type thing.

Happy 57th, Shabana ji, and many happy returns of the day. आप जियें हज़ारों साल, साल के दिन हों पचास हज़ार - may you live thousands of years, and may each year have 50,000 days! (That way you can save the world and make lots more films.)

Still in time to join you all in wishing Shabana a HAPPY BIRTHDAY and hoping that she may have many more birthdays and make many more films and give many more interviews so that we can all enjoy and learn!

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Sounds Like Power is an unofficial, fan-run website. All views expressed herein are my own, and are not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated. Nor are they those of Shabana Azmi or of any organization with which she may be affiliated.

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"Say 'Shabana' and it is nectar.Say 'Shabana Azmi' and it sounds like power." --Shabana Azmi